VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI has decided the collection taken up at his Holy Thursday evening Mass will be used to help rebuild Haiti’s major seminary in Port-au-Prince. The seminary was reduced to rubble by the magnitude 7 quake that struck Jan. 12.Read More
I find it hilarious when you offer something to a person and mention “its free.” People stop what they’re doing, heads turn, they come for a closer look. It could be a rotten potato but you will probably get some takers.Read More
SAO PAULO, Brazil – Three clergymen in the Diocese of Penedo, Brazil, have been suspended from the priesthood while authorities continue investigating claims of sexual abuse against them from altar servers.Read More
CHICAGO – Cardinal Francis E. George of Chicago expressed deep regret at Father Michael Pfleger’s “partisan” remarks about Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton and said the priest had assured him he would “not enter into campaigning” or “publicly mention any candidate by name.”Read More
We all face challenges in our lives. The most serious of those challenges sometimes results in a crisis of faith. It takes faith to pray and so the double jeopardy we face in such a crisis is an inability to pray. A feeling of abandonment, a feeling of loss, a feeling of hopelessness can follow...Read More
LOS ANGELES – New research shows that poor and marginalized students attending Catholic schools have significantly higher retention and graduation rates than their peers in public schools.Read More
ROME – Love, honesty and devotion to Christ are essential for facing the crisis in the church and in the priesthood caused by cases of clerical sexual abuse, an Australian archbishop said.Read More
Over the years, I have literally spent thousands of dollars on courses, classes and books in an effort to be of most help to couples in their marriages. So, naturally, one of the most helpful things I ever found was not in any of those courses, classes or books. It was something I found at...Read More
Oblate Sister of Providence Rita Michelle Proctor, principal of Mother Mary Lange Catholic School in northeast Baltimore, looked forward to the day when her school’s namesake, the foundress of her order, would be canonized in Rome.Read More
CUMBERLAND – When Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien visited Bishop Walsh School in Cumberland soon after his Oct. 1 installation, he challenged students and faculty to come up with ways of raising awareness about vocations to the religious life.Read More
LIMA, Peru – Cleanup is beginning in towns on Chile’s central coast as electricity and telephone service is slowly restored and people try to rebuild their lives after a magnitude 8.8 earthquake killed nearly 800 people and caused millions of dollars in damage.Read More
The size of the first graduating class of Sisters Academy of Baltimore, Lansdowne, is the same size of some Catholic families. Although the 10 girls are not all Catholic nor are they sisters, their connection over the past four years since the school opened has been like a family, more distinctively – a sisterhood.Read More